The great gatsby
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question 1 (5 points)
examine the following passage from the great gatsby and use it to answer the question.
“i lived at west egg, the – well, the least fashionable of the two, though this is a most superficial tag to express the bizarre and not a little sinister contrast between them. my house was at the very tip of the egg, only fifty yards from the sound, and squeezed between two huge places that rented for twelve or fifteen thousand a season. the one on my right was a colossal affair by any standard … my own house was an eyesore, but it was a small eyesore, and it had been overlooked, so i had a view of the water, a partial view of my neighbor's lawn, and the consoling proximity of millionaires—all for eighty dollars a month.”

how does the author use the description of the setting in this passage to reveal details about the narrator?

question 1 options:

the setting reveals that he is excessively wealthy, and he does not care for those who are not.

the setting reveals that he is not an excessively wealthy man himself, but he lives surrounded by wealthy people.

the setting suggests that is unhappy about the state of his home, and dwells on his unhappiness.

the setting depicts that he is uncomfortable with his neighbors’ houses being so near his.

question 2 (5 points)
how does the following section of text serve to provide the reader with insight into tom and daisy’s characterization?

“they were careless people, tom and daisy –they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made. .”

question 2 options:

the reader can tell that tom and daisy are people who do not care about the poverty afflicting others.

the reader can see tom and daisy are wealthy people have little regard for others and are unconcerned about the problems their actions may create.

the passage makes it obvious that tom and daisy are extremely wealthy and hire many housekeepers to clean up the messes they make in their home.

the reader can clearly see that tom and daisy are madly in love and always stick together faithfully no matter what mess they are faced with.

question 3 (5 points)
the great gatsby takes place during

question 3 options:

the 1810's

the civil war

the 1920's

the 1970's

question 4 (5 points)
how do readers view tom buchanan as a result of his behavior in the novel's opening chapters? view the following passage as an example:

some time toward midnight tom buchanan and mrs. wilson stood face to face discussing in impassioned voices whether mrs. wilson had any right to mention daisy’s name.

‘daisy! daisy! daisy! ’ shouted mrs. wilson. ‘i’ll say it whenever i want to! daisy! dai——‘

making a short deft movement tom buchanan broke her

nose with his open hand.

then there were bloody towels upon the bathroom floor, and women’s voices scolding, and high over the confusion a long broken wail of pain.

question 4 options:

readers immediately see that tom is a victim of his own good nature.

readers completely understand that tom is a perceptive friend.

readers immediately recognize that tom is a cruel bully.

readers begin to realize that tom is a kind person who makes poor decisions.

question 5 (5 points)
by writing the novel entirely from nick carraway's point of view, f. scott fitzgerald

question 5 options:

consciously provides readers with a limited, one-sided description of events as nick sees them.

reminds readers that nick, in the end, is mostly responsible for what happens to the other characters.

galvanizes reader opinion against nick so that his descriptions of events are always deemed unreliable.

allows readers to know all about the thoughts and feelings of every character in the novel.